Post date: 2010/8/19 下午 02:59:01

A Digital Media Opera in 7 Acts - The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci - by Zuni Icosahedron

A World Premiere: 5 – 6, 8 - 9 / 11 / 2010, St. Ignatius Chapel, Kowloon

Commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci

Based on the book The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence

In this seven-act opera, the story of Matteo Ricci’s endeavour to convert the Chinese people to Christianity through teaching them the art of memory will be told in a spatial collage of singing, sounds and images. With prodigious feats of memory that he metaphorically put as a boundless memory palace constructed in the mind, and his thorough knowledge on science, technology and culture of China and the West, Matteo Ricci created an amazing encounter between western and eastern civilizations, and planted the seeds of cultural exchange between them in the few hundred years thereafter. This opera is written by Diana Liao, playwright of Poet Li Bai, with music composed by Steve Hui Ngo-shan, and internationally renowned operatic bass singer Tian Hao Jiang as Matteo Ricci.

Tickets are now available at all URBTIX outlets.

For more information, visit http://www.zuni.org.hk/